It is hard to fathom members of the United States House of Representatives refusing to formally honor the lives of 56 members of the military who laid down their lives in defense of this country, but that is sad truth with Nancy Pelosi in charge. While the refusal to take up my amendment to remember fallen Missourians is infuriating, this year's NDAA does include some positive provisions that will reverse President Biden's reckless cuts to our national security.
Despite the President's calls to reduce military funding, there is bipartisan consensus in the House that our military needs more funding. This year's budget increases our nation's defense topline by 5 percent allowing for provisions like a pay increase for our servicemembers who dedicate their lives to defending our country, funding for procurement and shipbuilding that President Biden has halted, and more funding for the missile defense system that is absolutely vital in modern day warfare.
No bipartisan bill is perfect, but our military is too important to let politics get in the way. I was proud to vote for the NDAA to provide our men and women in uniform with everything they need. They protect us every day, and I will continue to do everything I can in Congress to support them. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo.
Submit News. Congressman, 3rd District. This item is available in full to subscribers. Attention subscribers We have recently launched a new and improved website. Please log in to continue E-mail Password Log in. Need an account? Print subscribers If you're a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Non-subscribers Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber. By Blaine Luetkemeyer U. These selfless Americans were there fighting for us - day in and day out - to ensure nothing like September 11th could ever happen again.
It is hard to fathom members of the United States House of Representatives refusing to formally honor the lives of 56 members of the military who laid down their lives in defense of this country, but that is sad truth with Nancy Pelosi in charge. No bipartisan bill is perfect, but our military is too important to let politics get in the way. I was proud to vote for the NDAA to provide our men and women in uniform with everything they need.
They protect us every day, and I will continue to do everything I can in Congress to support them. For those without access to the Internet, I encourage you to call my offices in Jefferson City Washington, Mo. If you want even greater access to what I am working on, please visit my YouTube site, Facebook page, and keep up-to-date with Twitter and Instagram.
Monday, October 25, Toggle navigation Unterrified Democrat. They are more pronounced than any our nation has ever faced. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dunford, recently said that our military has to be ready to fight across regions, to fight across domains, and across functions.
This bill moves forward in all of those areas, being sure that we're interoperable where need to be, that we're quickly mobile where we need to be, that our armed services work as well together as we can possibly hope they could work together. Certainly the people who defend us, who serve in the military, are doing their part to protect our nation.
Now it is time for the Congress to do its part, led by the Senate and led by Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Member Reed, bringing this bill to the floor. But this is the bill we're voting on. Since we do it every year, a lot of it is not absolutely new, but all of it is, in my view, as updated as the committee could bring it to the floor and we're going to have a discussion of what needs to change even beyond that.
We see this at a critical time when our adversaries, including China and Russia, seek to undermine our influence around the world. Russia was just accused of putting a bounty on the head of not only American service people, but our allies in some parts of the world.
If that's true, a price should be paid for that.
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